Benjamin Franklin House
Museums & Science Centres · Westminster, Inner London
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 11am
🏠 Indoor3–55–88–1212–16Educational
What’s there
- Limited parking
Parking around the house is extremely limited; the venue urges visitors to use public transport. Nearest Underground: Charing Cross or Embankment.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Benjamin Franklin House is a restored Georgian townhouse on Craven Street, close to Trafalgar Square and the Thames, where the American founding father lived between 1757 and 1775. Visitors move room by room through a self-guided tour with a printed guide, or book an architectural tour that covers the building's eighteenth-century features and its later history as an anatomy school. The house is mostly unfurnished so that it keeps to its original fabric, and some rooms use live performance and projection to bring Franklin's London years to life. Children are admitted free to the self-guided visit, and the house runs a free education programme with school visits, workshops and family days. Its grand Georgian rooms and the bones found under the floor make it a quieter, more curious outing for older children and history-minded families, and it suits a visit that pairs well with a walk along the river.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Portable phone charger
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Colouring book and pencils
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Car window sunshade
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